Re:Gitmo Is Killing Me
by ucee054 on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @01:43PM
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Your parallel is off. Ireland itself was the "war" zone,
which would be analogous to the US black sites in
Afghanistan. You don't want the comparison.
And civil liberties in the mainland were nowhere
near as bad as this stupid war on terror.
The UK had internment without trial in the 1970s.
The hunger strike episode was in the 1980s, and was
started by people who had been tried and convicted.
Not people being "rendered" illegally from other
countries and certainly not random people handed in
for bounty who never received trial.
Finally, the internment episode, which shows the
UK in the worst light, is documented in this link
in Wikipedia:
And civil liberties in the mainland were nowhere near as bad as this stupid war on terror.
The UK had internment without trial in the 1970s. The hunger strike episode was in the 1980s, and was started by people who had been tried and convicted. Not people being "rendered" illegally from other countries and certainly not random people handed in for bounty who never received trial.
Finally, the internment episode, which shows the UK in the worst light, is documented in this link in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Demetrius
The timeline is from 1971-1977. "Gitmo" has been going for twice that long already.